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008			180912t20182018nyu o 00 0 eng d
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020			_a9781947447516
020			_z9781947447509
035			_a(OCoLC)1055396286
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
100	1		_aBasile, Jonathan, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aTar for Mortar: "The Library of Babel" and the Dream of Totality / _cJonathan Basile.
264		1	_a[New York] : _bdead letter office, BABEL Working Group, an imprint of punctum books, _c2018.
264		3	_aBaltimore, Md. : _bProject MUSE, _c2019
264		4	_c©2018.
300			_a1 online resource (106 pages): _billustrations
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_a"Tar for Mortar offers an in-depth exploration of one of literature's greatest tricksters, Jorge Luis Borges. His short story 'The Library of Babel' is a signature examplar of this playfulness, though not merely for the inverted world it imagines, where a library thought to contain all possible permutations of all letters and words and books is plumbed by pious librarians looking for divinely pre-fabricated truths. One must grapple as well with the irony of Borges's narration, which undermines at every turn its narrator's claims of the library's universality, including the very possibility of exhausting meaning through combinatory processing. Borges directed readers to his non-fiction to discover the true author of the idea of the universal library. But his supposedly historical essays are notoriously riddled with false references and self-contradictions. Whether in truth or in fiction, Borges never reaches a stable conclusion about the atomic premises of the universal library -- is it possible to find a character set capable of expressing all possible meaning, or do these letters, like his stories and essays, divide from themselves in a restless incompletion? While many readers of Borges see him as presaging our digital technologies, they often give too much credit to our inventions in doing so. Those who elide the necessary incompletion of the Library of Babel compare it to the Internet on the assumption that both are total archives of all possible thought and expression. Though Borges's imaginings lend themselves to digital creativity (libraryofbabel.info is certainly evidence of this), they do so by showing the necessary incompleteness of every totalizing project, no matter how technologically refined. Ultimately, Basile nudges readers toward the idea that a fictional/imaginary exposition can hold a certain power over technology."--Project MUSE.
546			_aEnglish.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
600	1	7	_aBorges, Jorge Luis, _d1899-1986 _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00030252
600	1	0	_aBorges, Jorge Luis, _d1899-1986 _xCriticism and interpretation.
650		7	_aLiterature and the Internet _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01000106
650		7	_aCriticism _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00883735
650		7	_aLiterary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aLiterary studies: from c 1900 - _2bicssc
650		0	_aLiterature and the Internet.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/66803/
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